Overview

Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a ""Home of the Music,"" a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland.For the first time, this remarkable soundscape is explored by an insider-a fourth generation Clare concertina player, uilleann piper and an internationally recognized authority on Irish traditional music. Entrusted with the testimonies, tune lore, and historic field recordings of Clare performers, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin reveals why this ancient place is a site of musical pilgrimage and how it absorbed the impact of global cultural flows for centuries. These flows brought musical change inwards, while simultaneously facilitating outflows of musical change to the world beyond - in more recent times, through the music of Clare stars like Martin Hayes and the Kilfenora Céilí Band. Placing the testimony of music and music makers at the center of Irish cultural history and working from a palette of disciplines, Flowing Tides explores an Irish soundscape undergoing radical change in the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great Famine, from the birth of the nation state to the meteoric rise-and fall-of the Celtic Tiger. It is essential reading for all interested in Irish/Celtic music and culture.

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Author:   Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin (Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies, Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University) ,  Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies Gearoid O Hallmhurain (Concordia University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780199380084

ISBN 10:   0199380082
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   18 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape Table of Contents Foreword by Harry White Preface About the Companion Website L'entrée: Clare and its Soundscape On Europe's Edge The Scope of this Book 1 Re-centering the Musical Periphery Harvesting a Sonic Archive Shifting Cartographies of Place and Mobility 2 Napoleon to Parnell: Before and After the Famine Ancien Regime Quadrilles and New Musical Spaces Great Famine: Grim Requiem of the Music Maker Fenian Concertinas and Land League Ballads The Feminization of Musical Space 3 Fifers, Tans and Jazzers: Soundscape in Transition Temperance and Beyond: Fifes, Drums, Brass and Reed Clare Music Makers and the Fight for Irish Independence The Roaring Twenties and Dance Hall Days 4 Hearth and Clachan: The Musical Year in Rural Clare Anois Teacht an Earraigh: Courting, Fasting, and Rites of Spring Torthaí na Bealtaine: Fairies, Garlands and Crossroad Capers Aimsir an Fhómhair: Autumn Threshing, Meitheals and Soirées Ceol an Gheimhridh: Winter Cuaird and Wren Dances 5 The Fleadh Down in Ennis: Coming Out of Isolation Pipers Three: Ennis, Reid and Doran Double Bass and Clog Box: Céilí Band Fever 1956: Annus Mirabilis 6 Autobahn to Doolin: Soundscape as a Cultural Commodity Toonagh Pedagogue: A Quiet Musical Revolution Doolin Discord: Counter Culture and Pub Culture Willie Week: Ireland's Musical Mecca 7 The Tiger: Re-appraising Global Clare Packaging Tradition: Clare Music and the Celtic Tiger To Rule and Guide: Clare Comhaltas at Century's End Another Clare: Virtual, Vicarious and Prosthetic L'épilogue: Remembering and Forgetting Appendix I: Field Notes - The Hesitation Step Appendix II: A Century of Clare Céilí Bands Appendix III: Hereditary Musical Families in Clare Glossary of Irish Language Terms Notes Discography Archives/Websites References Index

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In this unparalleled history of traditional music in County Clare, Ireland, O hAllmhurain provides a thorough account of how regional, national, and international forces have influenced the music and culture of an area considered by many to be the heart of Irish traditional music. B. A. Hunter, Choice

In this unparalleled history of traditional music in County Clare, Ireland, O hAllmhurain provides a thorough account of how regional, national, and international forces have influenced the music and culture of an area considered by many to be the heart of Irish traditional music. * B. A. Hunter, Choice *

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Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin is an award-winning Irish musician, ethnomusicologist and cultural historian. Formerly Jefferson Smurfit Chair of Irish Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, he is the inaugural holder of the bilingual Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montréal.

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